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He’s making it sound dark and dangerous on purpose. My breath catches and I feel the intended arousal in his words.
We both work in a sex club. We’re standing right inside it now. I know what he means. I’m very well versed in it.
Me choosing him means being on some wild dark, very dark, sexual adventure. The kind I’d need a safe word for if I go over the edge and can’t make my way back.
The kind of wild that this place is built on.
The kind of wild we are.
“Say it.”
“Red…”
“Good girl.”
* * *
My cheeks are still burningfrom the fire in his words.
Red…
Safe word…
Salvatore Giordano…
I can’t think about anything that’s not him even when I’m not with him. I’m thinking about him still as I walk down the path between the tables. Tables in my restaurant.
Jesus.
It’s like walking in a dream and it doesn’t feel real to me.
None of it does because in the dream I first had I leased this beautiful place and I was going to open in a few months’ time.
In this dream I own the complex itself and I can turn the place into something spectacular.
Gina comes out of the kitchen with a massive smile on her face. She’s more mesmerized than I am. I appear to be in this weird mood but really I’m stunned. Salvatore bought the place for three million, just like that. His offer to me was just this morning and in the space of hours this happened, it happened oh so quickly because of who he is.
Speak the name Giordano and people act. They move quickly, no questions asked. They just know to do whatever they need to faster than humanly possible.
He’s still taking care of various legal matters but he got the keys for the place by lunchtime and handed it over to me.
“I can’t get over it Mimi,” Gina bubbles spinning around and smiling.
I smile back at her and take it all in. “Me neither Gina. This is so much more than I could imagine. I don’t know what to do with myself.”
She laughs. “Are you kidding, you know what to do with yourself. Girl, you better give that man whatever loving he wants. No way would my man do anything like this for me. Mario didn’t even buy me flowers.”
“Tony does though,” I point out. It’s a little distraction for me, just a little.
“I guess I should call Mario an ex then,” she chuckles. She’s smiling but I know deep down she’s hurt. Apparently she broke up with Mario, but I’m not so sure it’s the end.
I want the best for her. That means I don’t want her with Tony either. She can do better than the both of them.
“Whatever makes you happy.” I nod.
She takes my hands into hers and smiles. “Mimi this is a good thing. This is a very good thing. Please look more excited. We’re standing in your restaurant, and it’s your building. Your place.”
“I know… I just …feel bad, Gina. I feel bad that this was what he had to do. I feel bad that this was what he felt he had to do.”
